Movies Reviews
Roots movie
This is a movie that changed my perspective on life forever! No movie has ever approached its impact on my psyche. This movie revealed my history in the very saddest and unflattering terms. This movie succeeded in erasing my innocent perspective od United States History and forever cast a …
House Party (1990)
House Party, directed by Reginald Hudlin is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The original release date was March 9, 1990 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Comedy/Romance and stars Christopher Reid as Kid, Christopher Martin as Play, Robin Harris as …
Movie: Unknown
I have just watched the movie UNKNOWN starring Liam Neeson, as it is just showing here in the Philippines this week. As for the title, I don’t know, at first I thought it’s going to be some kind of alien stuff or some unknown territory like Mars or …
Movie: The Spy Next Door
Synopsis: Jackie Chan stars as Agent Ho, a Chinese operative who is on-loan to the United States CIA. He falls in love with his neighbor and offers to watch her kids when she has to go out of town; only to find his and their lives are in danger.
What …
Scrubs Season Five - My Rite Of Passage
I am a huge collector of boxed DVD television collections. I love watching old reruns of TV shows because I can watch the episodes I want when I want. Also, I do not have to worry about the commercials either. This episode from season five is …
Tropic Thunder (R, 2008) movie
I was a little surprised by how much I actually liked this film. I really thought that Robert Downey, Jr. in “black-face” would cause some issues for the director, producer, and actors. But it seems that perhaps people are seeing about this film what I …
The History Boys
The History Boys is about some cute looking boys in a school, who has some strict regime and school lesson periods. They are all a dish to watch out for, and I can’t memorize their names, as the whole time I was watching this movie, I was just …
Spider Man
What can I say I just loved the Spider Man man. I think this was the best out of all 3 movies made. This movie was really cool because it shows you how Spider Man becomes Spider Man. I really liked how they showed the whole story about he got …
The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time is a very nice yet sad movie. I was pretty young when I saw this movie, and I think It was very sad. The whole story is about a bunch of Dinosaurs who a little kids going through a big journey to find a special place. …
Netflix
I worked at a video store for 3 years and so I got free rentals. However, the video store, “Hollywood Video”, didn’t really have everything I was looking for. Enter Netflix who has everything I could want. I keep thinking I’ll run out of stuff to want to watch …
Season of the Witch (movie)
When I saw the movie “Season of the Witch” advertising early this year on cable, I definitely wanted to watch it, and I became even more interested in seeing it after I saw that the actor Robert Sheenan from “Misfits” had a major role in it.
The movie, which was …
Vampires: The Turning movie
There is a good reason behind why I find it hard to like many of John Carpenter’s movies. I find that most of them are mediocre with inferior acting, terrible makeup, a silly plot, and even sillier script and so on. Thus, like many of John Carpenter’s movies, “Vampires: …
Sleuth
Sleuth is a mystery, thriller and suspense type movie about Andrew. Andrew is a mystery writer with a wild imagination. I think it is quite amusing that the main character of the movie that is a mystery type film will have the main character as a mystery writer. Sometimes …
Batman Forever, movie
Val Kilmer’s time out as Batman isn’t a bad turn at the helm, but it’s certainly not as strong as the original 89 movie with Michael Keaton in the role. Still this film had a great caste, but it made the same mistake that has killed so many other …
Delicatessen, movie (1991)
The film centers on an apartment building in post-apocalyptic France. The residents are under the landlordship of the butcher, Clapet. Using the local classifieds, Clapet lures people to his apartment building to kill them and sell their remains out of his meat shop. The tenants are …
When Harry Met Sally movie
When Harry Met Sally is an old movie, but really a classic. It came out sometime in the 80s, when Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, who star in the movie, were still relatively young. The movie has stood the test of time and been a favorite for …
The Crow movie
The Dark Gothic film that claimed the life of Brandon Lee. One of my favorite movies of all time, as not everyday you see a corpse rising from the grave to right to wrongs done to him. Not a zombie type role either…but undead and kicking butt from corner …
Stage Door Canteen movie
Stage Door Canteen, a 1943 wartime motion picture, was a real place in New York City. This movie is chalk full of big time stars of the day. Close your eyes for a second and you might miss Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead, Ray Bolger, or any one …
Sky High (2005)
This movie is a story about a boy who has super heroes for parents, his mother has the power of flight and his father has the power of super strength, but at fourteen, he is yet to have any powers of his own. His friends all have their powers, …
Chicken Little movie
When it comes to being a good family film, Chicken Little falls a little short.
What could have been a great story about a chicken who tries to convince the town he\’s not insane when he gets hit on the head with a piece of the sky, turns out to …
Across the Universe Movie
I’ve always been a Beatles fanatic. As such, seeing their songs come to life on the big screen is a real treat. Usually, I find such attempts sacrilegious, but this time, I have to say the actors pulled it off. I wouldn’t have patronized an album …
Fast and the Furious 4
I was really excited when I heard; they were going to film a fourth installment to
The “Fast and the Furious” series, this movie would actually be the sequel to the first movie although it is the fourth installment. So when the release date had been announced I knew I …
Requiem For a Dream
This is one of the most powerful and gut wrenching movies I have ever seen. It is brutally honest in its depiction of drug addiction and the effect it has on different people. It shows how drugs are just the tip of the pyramid when it comes …
Sivaji - The Boss Movie
Sivaji - The Boss Tamil movie released on June 16 2007. I watched the movie on First Day First show. It’s been tremendous experience to watch the Superstar Rajinikanth movie on first day. He has the large number of fans in India and his fans are …
The Postman Always Rings Twice movie
This film hasn’t got anything to do with postmen at all. It’s a story about jealousy and murder with Jack Nicholson in the leading role. The film didn’t manage to engage me in its story for some reason, even though I think both Nicholson and Jessica Lange are very …
The Transporter
“The Transporter” movie was released when I was still in high school. I believe I was about fourteen years old at the time, and had to listen to most of my friends talking about it as many of them thought the movie was exciting and adrenaline filled. I found …
Batman Begins
“Batman Begins” is one of the best Batman movies I have ever watched. I thought the actor Christian Bale really did hid character justice and was just the right amount of “dark” for the superhero. I thought it was a big change from the movies “Batman and Robin” and …
King’s Speech Movie
King’s Speech is exactly the kind of movie I enjoy most. Very touching, perfectly acted, and a beautiful rendering of a historical event or personality. This is a film that has garnered much recognition this Awards Season and that is rightly so, because it is certainly my favorite of …
A Prophet (movie)
One of the most interesting movies that I watched maybe about two months ago was a French movie called “A Prophet”. Like many of the movies I watched vey recently, I read about it in a popular movie blog before I decided to try it out, because it got …
Poseidon (2006)
This movie is a remake of so many other movies of the same name or with similar titles, a group of passengers on an ocean liner must band together to see the light of day and emerge with their lives as the ship they are on is hit by …
H. H. Holmes; America’s First Serial Killer movie
I had a late night with my youngest daughter last night (she ended up taking a late afternoon nap so she didn’t want to go to sleep at her regular time). Since I needed to stay awake too, I ended up looking for something to watch.
I didn’t want to …
The Bucket List
There are not many movies out there that give you something to intellectually pause over. The Bucket List is an exception to that general rule. Typically when we go to the movies, we are lookig for something happy and uplifting to take us away from the real …
The Wolverine (movie)
When the movie “The Wolverine” was released last year, I found that I was nowhere near interested in seeing it unlike the other movies in the “X-men” series. Until now, I still have a difficulty placing my finger on why exactly this was since I generally look forward to …
White Noise (2005)
White Noise, directed by Geoffrey Sax is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for violence, disturbing images and language. The original release date was January 7, 2005 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Drama/Horror/Mystery/Science Fiction/Thriller and stars Michael Keaton as Jonathan …
Insidious Movie
This movie is exactly what the name suggests — Insidious. If you find yourself sorting through new movies and find nothing that deserves any consideration, I would encourage you to give Insidious another look. If you are looking for a star studded cast, Shymalan-esque plot twists, or …
21st Century Breakdown
After 5 years of waiting and waiting for their green day to come out with an new album, i have to say the album was defiantly worth the wait, but nothing more. The album is of course amount my favorites, however it does not surpass dookie as my all …
When Harry Met Sally
Billy Crystal sizzles in the movie, When Harry Met Sally. And one of my most favorite actress, Meg Ryan acted too and together with Billy Crystal, the on-screen chemistry looks unavoidable. I could be watching this 10 times and still not get tired nor bored at it.
This is …
Slackers
Slackers is a comedy (?) about a geek who wants to hook up with a beautiful popular girl and gets the help of three people ,who get really bad grades but do not do any work to achieve them, to help him get the girl. The director of this …
Bedtime Stories comedy
Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler, is an enjoyable family oriented comedy. It won’t win any Oscars, but it’s one you feel fairly safe watching with your kids. There is some very mild bad language, but it’s pretty tame even for its PG rating. My one biggest complaint (Spoiler alert) …
Star Trek Fan Collective: Klingon
In 2006 the people behind the massive Star Trek franchise put out four special edition DVD sets featuring episodes from all five of the live action series according to specific categories chosen by popular votes from the fans. One of these collections was the Klingon set, which features …
The Incredible Hulk 2
I just got back from the movies and I have to say The Incredible Hulk 2 is so much better than any of the other Hulk movies or TV show in the past. It is a great story line that really follows the original comic book story much closer …
Prom Night movie
Prom Night was recently released out here in the United Kingdom and I decided to go and see it with a friend at my local Showcase Cinema in Walsall. I always enjoy a good cinema experience. The experience with friends, the laughs and the jokes and then of course …
Planet of the Apes (1968)
The original and still the best, this movie tells the story of a group of astronauts who, while deep in the hibernation state, crash landed on a strange planet. After waking up to find one of the crew members dead, they disembark their space craft and continued to survey …
Napoleon Dynamite
I have met people who think Napoleon Dynamite is the most hilarious movie ever and some other people that say it isn’t funny at all. This is a movie that maybe is not possible to catalog either as funny or not funny: it’s really hard to say if it’s …
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Fockers is crazy, wild and hilariously funny! I could never summarize this movie enough. It has a very superb cast and I really must praise the Director and everyone making this movie because it has made me so happy watching it each time. The …
To Serve them all my Days
I am reviwing the mini series, To Serve them all my Days. The mini series follows David Powlett-Jones (John Dutine) who comes to teach at a bording school named Bamfylde. David has just barely survived the trenches of World War I, and is a nervous wreck. His hands …
Cujo
If you are not afraid of dogs by now you will be after watching the movie Cujo. Stephen King is the master of horror and he really does make you fear dogs and never look at them in the same way ever again. The movie is about a a killer …
‘Runaway’ a short film by Kanye West
I really didn’t know what to think when I first heard of this short film, which was written by ‘Belly’ writer Hype Williams and directed by Kanye West. If I had not been able to read a brief description of the movie at the time that I heard about …
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